Yes, the hardware is significantly weaker, but instead it has other benefits. It's just a different tradeoff for different preferences. It also runs a desktop OS and no proprietary drivers unlike anything else on the market. So it will get lifetime updates and can be used as, e.g., a server when you buy something new.

> issues running backwards compatible applications

Which issues? Waydroid should work.

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handedness 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

> no proprietary drivers unlike anything else on the market

You continue to be deliberately deceptive with your wording.

https://docs.puri.sm/Hardware/Librem_5/Maintenance/Modem.htm...

You dishonestly promote an $800 product in comment after comment.

Hiding your obvious shilling behind the moral cloak of "activism" is pathetic. It's worse than pathetic, as it runs the risk of harming genuine activism.

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		What are you trying to tell with you link? You did not provide any arguments or explanation. Yes, it has a modem with update-able firmware, so what? It's a separate card with its own firmware that you can remove or replace. The firmware sits on the modem, not in the OS and does not affect it. PureOS is endorsed by the FSF and contains no proprietary software.
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